Show COASTS OVER FOOT CLIFF postmaster Pott matter S wears off short cuts cuti after H ha li Is dug out of 15 foot drift pine brook N J rost postmaster master joseph Lle liebeskind beskind of pine brook N J took a tar far shorter short cut than he intended recently and vows that hell never take another the last few seconds of ah xh a bhart cut over hook mountain ino were the longest lie ever lived through ile he was on hla ats way to visit it a relative tive on the other side of the mountain and decided to climb over it instead of following the road around ile he found the summit of the ilia ridge bare of snow ano bovi however ov oer and glazed with lee ice moreover 1 r there was a gradually increasing slope toward tile the foot cliff on the lie far side don this slope the postmaster coasted with increasing speed until lie shot over the lie edge of the cliff with a velocity which carried him fifteen or twenty feet past the brink tills this i enabled him to clear a heap of rock debris at the foot of the precipice and lie landed in a fifteen foot snow drift which engulfed him completely wllbur wilbur colyer saw the postmasters spectacular dive and went to the drift with a shovel after the postmaster hull a been dug out and examined by a physician lie he went on to tits his relatives by the road |